Not going to get close to my target of 52 books this year — hoping to scrape in 42 though before 2019! The quality has made up for the relative lack of quantity though as there are some great books on this list. The *starred books are this years favourites.

1. The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed 
   Serrano, Shea
2. Artemis
   Weir, Andy
3. Sourdough*
   Sloan, Robin
4. The Start-up Way 
   Ries, Eric
5. Provenance* 
   Leckie, Ann
6. Read This Before Our Next Meeting: How We Can Get More Done Pittampalli, Al
7. Darktown 
   Mullen, Thomas
8. Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility 
   McCord, Patty
9. Tribe of Mentors
   Ferris, Timothy
10. Two Kinds of Truth 
    Connelly, Michael
11. Radical Openness: Four Unexpected Principles for Success 
    Tapscott, Don, Williams, Anthony D.
12. Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You mean Scott, Kim
13. Children of Time* 
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
14. Meeting Design: For Managers, Makers, and Everyone 
    Kevin M. Hoffman
15. Chicago
    Mamet, David
16. Head On
    Scalzi, John
17. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps* 
    Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
18. Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery*
    Andrew Greenway and Ben Terrett
19. Ali: A Life* 
    Jonathan Eig
20. The Tao of Bill Murray
    Gavin Edwards
21. Sacred
    Lehane, Dennis
22. G-Man
    Hunter, Stephen
23. Little White Lies (The Spenser Series) 
    Ace Atkins
24. The Innocents (Quinn Colson Book 6) 
    Ace Atkins
25. Righteous: an IQ novel
     Joe Ide
26. Inner City Pressure*
    Dan Hancox
27. How Music Got Free: What happens when an entire generation commits the same crime? 
    Stephen Witt
28. Dark Run
    Mike Brooks
29. The Expert System’s Brother 
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
30. Summerland* 
    Hannu Rajaniemi
31. The Man Who Came Uptown 
    George Pelecanos
32. Old Black Magic: Spenser 
    Ace Atkins
33. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work 
    Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
34. The Consuming Fire (Interdependency Book 2)* 
    John Scalzi
35. Make Time 
    Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
36. Rise Up 
    Stormzy
37. Killing Gravity 
    Corey J. White
38. Red Moon
    Kim Stanley Robinson
39. Void Black Shadow (The Voidwitch Saga Book 2)
    Corey J. White
40. Static Ruin (The Voidwitch Saga Book 3)
    White, Corey J.
41. Whiskey River 
    Loren D. Estleman
42. Beastie Boys Book
    Mike Diamond & Adam Horovitz

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